This Hubble image features one of the most visually intricate remnants of a dying star: the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as ...

What are some skywatching highlights in March 2026? A total lunar eclipse blood moon takes centre stage, Venus and Saturn cozy up for a conjunction, and we celebrate the vernal equinox.

SP Crater (above left), located in Arizona’s San Francisco Volcanic Field, features a 7-kilometer-long lava flow that extends ...

Users Group is a recurring Webex forum that brings together researchers, open-science practitioners, and collaborators ...

Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across ...

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory began its 24-month primary science mission on March 1. The spacecraft, launched in September 2025, will focus its ...

Webb studies every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.

Hubble was designed as a general purpose observatory, meant to explore the universe in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared wavelengths. To date, the telescope has studied a vast array of cosmic objects ...

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may have these essential ingredients and is as old as Earth. NASA is sending the Europa Clipper spacecraft to conduct a detailed exploration of Europa and investigate whether ...

Getting to Know the Lunar Exosphere The lunar atmosphere is mostly an exosphere, which itself is mostly empty space. If you were to visit the Moon and walk around on its surface, you might think it ...

During an observation with Webb, infrared light travelling from the target object or region of space is intercepted by the primary mirror, reflected onto the smaller secondary mirror, and then focused ...